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Creative Living for Life Inc

Creative Living for Life Inc (Ohio) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $575,700 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($315,600). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$1.2M
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$576k
Net assets
$1.7M
0/9 repeat funders
01What it does

What Creative Living for Life Inc does

Mission

Provide housing to developmentally disabled individuals.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Provide housing to developmentally disabled individuals.

    $106,773 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $106,773.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($140k) Expenses 100 ($54k) Net assets 100 ($73k)2019 Revenue 168 ($235k) Expenses 209 ($112k) Net assets 269 ($196k)2020 Revenue 166 ($232k) Expenses 230 ($123k) Net assets 442 ($321k)2021 Revenue 165 ($231k) Expenses 247 ($132k) Net assets 605 ($439k)2022 Revenue 174 ($243k) Expenses 247 ($132k) Net assets 714 ($519k)2023 Revenue 189 ($265k) Expenses 294 ($157k) Net assets 909 ($661k)2024 Revenue 851 ($1.2M) Expenses 274 ($147k) Net assets 2388 ($1.7M)
2018201920202021202220232024
Revenue (851)Expenses (274)Net assets (2388)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $4.5M to $9.6M (+113%).

$1.5M
$1.7M
$2.0M
$2.1M
$2.6M
$4.5M
$9.6M
2018201920202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2019 3% · 2020 8% · 2021 9% · 2022 9% · 2023 9% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

73% of Creative Living for Life Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (39% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,214 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$86k
’18
$123k
’19
$109k
’20
$99k
’21
$110k
’22
$107k
’23
$1.0M
’24
316
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Chief executive

Dianne Depasquale-Hagerty

Executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.

2018201920202021202220232024
Listed6545555
Joined·+0+2+3+0+0+0
No longer listed·132000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

6 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 93% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of Creative Living for Life Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

Creative Living for Life Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

93% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Creative Living for Life Inc.

55%
largest funder
83%
top three
~3
effective funders

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

93% of Creative Living for Life Inc's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $40k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Ohio funders.

OH

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $536k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Creative Living for Life Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,973 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.

Operating margin88% · top quartile
Months of reserve315.7mo · outside the comparable range
Revenue growth (annualized)43% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,973 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like Creative Living for Life Inc

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Ohio

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

73% of spending goes to programs.

Program 73%Management 27%Fundraising 0%

Governance

4
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

97%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Medina Creative Housing Inc · exempt

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Creative Living for Life Inc: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds Creative Living for Life Inc?
Creative Living for Life Inc (Ohio) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $575,700 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($315,600). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Creative Living for Life Inc have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $575,700 in grants to Creative Living for Life Inc.
Who is the largest funder of Creative Living for Life Inc?
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $315,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Creative Living for Life Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 9 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing